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Scientists reveal a hidden snakebite crisis killing up to 513,000 people a year
A startling new study suggests that venomous snakebites are killing far more people worldwide than official statistics indicate, with an estimated 274,000 to 513,000 deaths every year. Researchers found that as many as 7 million people could suffer snake envenoming annually, while more than 800,000 survivors are left with long-term disabilities.
Slice of Martian Meteorite Teghaza 001
This slice of Teghaza 001, one of the most ancient Martian meteorites ever found on Earth, was used to determine the age of the rock. Reflected light images
Maui’s Deer Crisis: Science, Strife, and Inertia (Part One)
By some estimates, there are nearly as many axis deer as there are people across the three islands of Maui County. Roving herds can wreck a farmerʻs…
John A. Logan College STEM Day gives high school students hands-on lesson in science, engineering
More than 160 area high school students took part in STEM Day at John A. Logan College in Carterville, putting their engineering skills to the test by launching homemade gliders carrying eggs from a 20-foot ramp.
Why do we see ghosts? The science behind spooky encounters
Why do people see ghosts? Wake Forest associate teaching professor of psychology Melissa Maffeo says our brains like to make sense of things we can’t easily explain. She shares the science behind ghost sightings, from strange sounds to sleep paralysis.
Johns Hopkins Researchers’ Cancer Cell Mapping Technology Chosen for Anthropic AI for Science Project
Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Alexander Szalay, Ph.D., and Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Dermatology and Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center pathologist Janis Taube, M.D., M.Sc., were chosen for a research project in Anthropic's AI for Science program. They were selected for their pioneering AstroPath technology, which combines astronomy, pathology and artificial intelligence (AI) to create detailed maps of tumors, revealing how cancer cells interact with surrounding cells
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science celebrates 40 years
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) — The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science is celebrating a big milestone this year – its 40th anniversary. To celebrate, the museum is hosting a special …
ANCC Presents 2026 HRH Princess Muna Al Hussein Award to Dr. Jean Watson, Founder of Caring Science
The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) has presented Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, with the 2026 HRH Princess Muna Al Hussein Award. The award honors nurses whose contributions have advanced international health care and who have shown an exceptional commitment to nursing. ANCC presented this award during the 2026 Magnet & Pathway Conference® at McCormick Place in Chicago.
No Concessions to Hackers in UNM Health Center Attack
Health system officials said the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center has not made any concessions to bad actors, who “did not penetrate core systems or servers.”
Schlegel receives Distinguished Animal Science Alumnus Award
The Department of Animal Science in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences recently presented Michael Schlegel, of Wildwood, Missouri, with the 2026 Distinguished Animal Science Alumnus Award.
Modern Science: New research on a Megacauda fossil involving an Ohio University professor disrupts previous timeline of mammal evolution
ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) —A researcher at Ohio University was part of an international team that uncovered new evidence illuminating the evolutionary origins of one of the defining features of mammals: t
UF Geologist brings Earth Science to life for Millhopper Montessori 4th-graders
Fourth-grade students at Millhopper Montessori School had the opportunity to learn from a University of Florida scientist during a special classroom visit from Dr. Andrew Zimmerman of the UF Department of Geological Sciences.
California Science Center and NASA JPL Unveil Space Gallery
Historic planetary rovers, lunar probes, and interactive robotics exhibits will welcome visitors to the new Los Angeles aerospace facility in late 2026.
Lisa Karch named president of North Dakota State College of Science
WHAPETON, N.D. (KFGO) - Lisa Karch has been named president of North Dakota State College of Science after ser...
King’s College Things That Go Boom in the Night: Halloween science show delights kids for 27th year
Making sure the little girl was wearing sturdy gloves for safety, chemistry professor Julie M. Belanger invited 7-year-old Rosely Espinosa to dip a long-stemmed carnation into a container of liquid nitrogen.
The New DNA Technology That Linked Ted Bundy to a 52-Year-Old Cold Case
Software known as STRmix was instrumental in identifying Mr. Bundy’s DNA in a decades-old sample.
Custom luxury ranch home near Harrisburg combines striking design, advanced building science
Experience luxury designed to be felt as much as seen in this exceptional new-construction home that blends sophisticated style with an innovative approach to residential building.
LAUSD students achieve highest-ever state testing scores in English, math and science - Beverly Press & Park Labrea News
Los Angeles Unified School District students achieved their highest-ever scores in English language arts, mathematics and science in...
The Science Of Sharing: Why Generosity Matters
As the leaves change across Severna Park and we gather with family around Thanksgiving, November naturally invites us to reflect on gratitude.
679 UT Health Sciences Students Meet Their Future ‘Teammates’ at IPE Day
Hundreds of first-year students from all six colleges of UT Health Sciences swapped classroom seats for mixed teams on Doc’s Field last week.
Platform Science Launches Four New Fleet Apps to Streamline Operations
These new capabilities enable fleets to identify operational problems earlier, scale safety coaching across large driver rosters, share delivery visibility with customers, and take direct control of in-cab video settings – all from the back office.
These might be the nine best science photos from the past 30 years
The Wellcome Trust celebrates 30 years of awe-inspiring images at the forefront of science and health
A peek inside the 2026 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science celebration
Vox and L’Oreal Groupe celebrate this year’s grant recipients.
Officials break ground on Bradley Central High weather safe room, new science labs
A new facility coming to Bradley Central High School is designed to serve students day to day while also giving the wider community a place to go when severe we
Alaska Fisheries Science Center attributes hybrid snow-Tanner crab boom to marine heatwave, decreased competition and predation
Alaska Fisheries Science Center attributes hybrid crab boom to marine heatwave competition and predation
Inside DOGE’s involvement in National Science Foundation grant terminations last year
And, GSA expands its OneGov agreement with Anthropic
Fall Back, But Should We? The Science Behind the Time Change
Daylight Saving Time ends this weekend, reigniting debates over health risks, political gridlock and whether science points to a better way
Statement on the Rescission of Appropriated Funds -
The American Political Science Association (APSA) condemns the unlawful actions taken by the Trump Administration to illegally withhold $810 million dollars of federal funding appropriated by Congress, much of which supports the research of political [...]
This Pennsylvania Tannery Has Turned its Industrial Process Into a Science
In rural Curwensville, Wickett & Craig workers produce a premium leather made exclusively via an old-school vegetable tanning process.
NASA’s TSIS-2 Mission Aces Vacuum, Vibration Testing
The bright white lights reflect off the metallic hardware of a satellite poised for inspection. Engineers outfitted with bunny suits traverse the clean room,
The Cruisers Mapping Coral Reefs for Science
Birgit Hackl interviews the founders of the Coral Sailors Initiative on how cruising sailors can help map coral reefs in remote atolls worldwide.
The Cruisers Mapping Coral Reefs for Science
Tom Puchner and Sonja Napetschnig built the Coral Sailors Initiative to turn cruising snorkelers into reef scientists. The post The Cruisers Mapping Coral Reefs for Science appeared first on Cruising World.
Seabirds get jet lag, too — and it can throw them a bit off course
GPS tracking reveals fast east-west flights lead to a mismatch between birds' internal time and the sun’s position, skewing their sense of direction.
Bruna David: A Busy ESMO 2026 Filled with Science, Friends and Meaningful Connections
Bruna David: A Busy ESMO 2026 Filled with Science, Friends and Meaningful Connections / Barcelona 2027, Bruna David, cancer, Cancer research, ESMO, esmo 2026,
Commentary: Science shapes Michigan policy. Voters deserve to know candidates’ views.
Policy decisions do not happen in isolation, nor are they confined to Capitol Hill or Lansing. Decisions made across all levels of government directly affect Michiganders’ health and livelihoods. From monitoring our food supply to protecting drinking water, scientists help governments identify risks, evaluate possible responses, and decide what actions to take. Recent events in […]
Commentary: Science shapes Michigan policy. Voters deserve to know candidates’ views.
Policy decisions do not happen in isolation, nor are they confined to Capitol Hill or Lansing. Decisions made across all levels of government directly affect Michiganders’ health and livelihoods. From...
The Longest Eclipse Left This Century Now Has Its Own Science Tour in Spain
New Scientist Discovery Tours has five new trips for 2027, from fossil digs in the Australian outback to jaguar tracking in Brazil.
Drake actuarial science professor shares national award for research connecting insurers and InsurTech data
A research paper coauthored by Dr. Changyue Hu, assistant professor of actuarial science in Drake University’s Zimpleman College of Business, has received the North American Actuarial Journal (NAAJ) Annual Prize for the best paper published in 2025. The NAAJ, published by the Society of Actuaries (SOA), has honored one outstanding paper each year since 1983. ...
NASA’s Voyager 1 Conserves Power, Resolves Brief Communications Pause
NASA’s Voyager team is celebrating two recent developments with the Voyager 1 spacecraft: In September, they successfully completed a months-long effort to
ARKG: Revolutionary Science, Unremarkable Returns
The ARK Genomic Revolution ETF is rated a HOLD with MODERATE conviction, given high valuations and moderate expected returns. Read more here on ARKG.
Rille Pihlak: New Science, New Friendships and New Hope for Cancer Patients
Rille Pihlak: New Science, New Friendships and New Hope for Cancer Patients / cancer, ESMO, esmo 2026, ESMO Congress, ESMO26, European Society for Medical
UCSB computer science department now offers new artificial intelligence major
For the first time, UC Santa Barbara students will be able to make artificial intelligence the focus of their undergraduate experience. As of this quarter, the UCSB computer science (CS) department has launched a new undergraduate major in artificial intelligence (AI).
Nations accused of undermining science at UN nature talks
Political tensions are mounting in the final days of the United Nations biodiversity talks with a handful of countries accused of trying to weaken the science that underpins global nature policy.
Science robotics startup Opentrons raises $40M to standardize laboratory automation
Science robotics startup Opentrons raises $40M to standardize laboratory automation - SiliconANGLE
Nations accused of undermining science at UN nature talks
Political tensions are mounting in the final days of the United Nations biodiversity talks with a handful of countries accused of trying to weaken the science that underpins global nature policy.Nearl...
Some of the world’s biggest bats are getting smaller
Madagascan flying foxes aren’t as mighty as they were 150 years ago. The big bats have shrunk, possibly due to selective hunting or other human impacts.
Texas Junior Academy of Science Competition Results
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Optica Names Attosecond Science Pioneer Paul B. Corkum Honorary Member
Optica has named physicist Paul B. Corkum an Honorary Member, recognizing his pioneering contributions to ultrafast laser technology and the... Read More
Science Lab: Dear Cowboys, blitz the QB.
Welcome to "The Science Lab", a place where football facts and in-depth analysis always triumph over feelings.
From Science to Songs: Mark Winters Takes the Stage in Franklin
Since mid-August, acoustic rock artist Mark Winters has set his sights on touring a multi-stop tour across North America.
Bears’ Caleb Williams Defies NFL Fine With Bold Stance on Controversial ‘Science-Type’ Cleats
Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears are having a good start to the 2026 NFL season. The team secured a big win against the New England Patriots in their Week 7 matchup, winning with a score of 30-24. They currently have five wins and two losses so far this season, and are competing for the […] The post Bears’ Caleb Williams Defies NFL Fine With Bold Stance on Controversial ‘Science-Type’ Cleats appeared first on Gridiron Heroics.
Spring homeowner’s meteorite to go on display at Houston Museum of Natural Science
A meteorite crashed through Sherrie James’ roof in Spring, Texas, on March 21, landing near her daughter and causing a pressure wave that scientists estimated equaled about 26 tons of TNT. That space rock will now be on display at the Houston Museum of Natural Science on Nov. 6.
Social Science: Neither Social nor Science
After finishing required coursework, Ph.D. students in most disciplines take preliminary (sometimes called qualifying) exams to demonstrate that they’re ready to begin independent dissertation…
Oglala Lakota College approved for environmental science master’s degree
The Higher Learning Commission approved Oglala Lakota College’s 36-credit Master of Science in Environmental Science, expanding tribal graduate education.
New NGA, Matter Neuroscience, Napolitan Institute National Survey Finds Americans Want Leaders Who Demonstrate Dignity
As Americans head to the polls in November, survey finds voters see political life marked by disrespect and dehumanization; Companion report examines everyday conditions associated with well-being WASHINGTON – The National Governors Association (NGA), Matter Neuroscience and Napolitan Institute today released “Dignity in American Political Life: What Registered Voters See — and What They Say […]
GW Is a Founding Partner in Hugging Face’s Project ProtoStar, a National Effort to Make Publicly Funded Science AI-Ready
The George Washington University is a founding partner in Project ProtoStar, a partnership with Hugging Face and other research institutions and universities to accelerate scientific discovery. The initiative aims to make publicly funded datasets, models and code easier for people and AI systems to find, understand and reuse. GW’s participation is led by its Open Source Program Office (OSPO).
Purdue Basic Medical Sciences faculty member honored with Showalter Early Career Award
Purdue University has named a dozen faculty members as recipients of the 2026 Showalter Early Career Awards, including Pradip Bajgain, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences. The 12 early career faculty members received the research support for their innovative projects
This Is the Perfect Commute Length for Your Happiness, According to Science
A survey of 2,000 commuters suggests that shorter trips leave workers feeling more relaxed, while longer journeys can increase stress.
Digital Science Acquires Jenni AI, Expanding Research Tools to 8 Million Users
Digital Science has acquired Jenni AI, an artificial intelligence-powered research and writing platform used by more than 8 million students... Read More
Exploring the Cat's Head Nebula
This visualization explores imagery from NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes of the Cat’s Head Nebula, a relatively small, dusty filament containing forming stars located within the massive Carina Nebula. Each telescope and wavelength of light offers unique ...
Multiwavelength Flight into the Cat's Head Nebula
This tour simultaneously glides through imagery from NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes of the Cat’s Head Nebula. The dust filament broadly remains the same in shape across the different wavelengths of light, but each view contains different details. Hubble...
How Science Fiction Solved the Energy Crisis
In the 1970s, bold solutions to the crisis abounded... in the realm of fiction, at least.
Japan's science minister visits Kyoto Fusioneering to back fusion energy industrialization push
Japan's science and technology minister paid his first visit to a fusion energy development site on October 22, 2026 — less than two months after taking office.
FNIH Celebration of Science Highlights Achievements and Partnerships
The FNIH marked its 30th anniversary as the official nonprofit partner of the NIH at the Celebration of Science on Oct. 28, 2026.
Halloween scares: the science behind why some people love horror
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- Love it or hate it, horror is king this time of year. Movies, costumes and jump scares abound. There are two factors that influence how we feel about it. One is genetics, the other is personal experience. Neuropsychiatrist Dr. Katherine Brownlow says everyone is born with different temperaments. Some love
Misericordia’s Boom in the Night brings hands-on Halloween science to families
Misericordia University got into the Halloween spirit Wednesday evening with its annual Boom in the Night event, giving children and families from surrounding c
HYDRINITY Accelerated Skin Science Announces Expansion into Spain Through Strategic Partnership with UniSthetic
HYDRINITY Accelerated Skin Science, the fastest-growing professional skincare brand in the U.S., announces its expansion into Spain through a strategic partnership with UniSthetic, a leading provider in the country's professional aesthetics and skincare industry. This partnership marks another significant milestone in HYDRINITY's continued global growth, introducing its portfolio of clinically backed, advanced regenerative skincare solutions to one of Europe's most established medical aesthetics
KKR Invests $475M in San Diego Life Science Campus
KKR has made a $475 million investment in Alexandria Real Estate Equities’ Campus Point by Alexandria Megacampus.
Graduate student took data science to the hardwood
Men’s basketball data analyst Boris Crnjak ’24 will soon earn his second Carolina degree.
Alaska Science Forum: Ornithological observations from a recliner
I don’t know what age you’re supposed to start sitting in a recliner and looking out the living room window at the bird feeder, but I sure do like doing that.
Fresher for longer: The science extending the shelf life of food
Extending food’s shelf life is one of the biggest challenges researchers face as they think about how to maximize what is grown in the United States. In this video, meet the University of Georgia researchers studying how fruits and vegetables grown in Georgia and the region can stay fresher, safer, and tastier from farm to
These students solve research problems with their hands - College of Arts and Sciences
Scholars in the UNC computer science department’s Experimental Engineering Lab learn skills applicable across disciplines.
Tandy Warnow honored at American Academy of Arts and Sciences celebration
Tandy Warnow, CS professor and associate director at the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, was celebrated for her recent induction into the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences on October 14 at a ceremony on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus. Warnow was elected for her excellence and continued accomplishments in the fields of discrete mathematics, probability theory, computer science and data.
UNC graduate student took data science to the hardwood
As an undergraduate student at North Carolina, Boris Crnjak homed in on statistics and data science...
A 700,000-year-old elephant tooth reveals a lost world where early humans lived
A remarkably preserved elephant tooth dating back nearly 700,000 years has revealed a surprisingly lush prehistoric world where giant elephants and early humans lived side by side. Discovered in northern Israel alongside ancient stone tools, the tooth belonged to a straight-tusked elephant, one of the largest land mammals of the Ice Age.
NASA discovers Jupiter’s invisible shield is more complex than Earth’s
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has discovered that Jupiter uses a surprisingly complex system of powerful plasma waves and multiple shock regions to defend against the solar wind. The findings reveal major differences between Jupiter and Earth and could help scientists understand the enormous shock waves produced by exploding stars.
A single brain signal may explain schizophrenia's most puzzling symptoms
Scientists have identified a weakened brain signal that may connect several seemingly unrelated symptoms of schizophrenia, including sensory processing difficulties, disorganized speech, and greater symptom severity. The surprising discovery could help explain the disorder's underlying mechanisms and potentially lead to earlier detection and new treatments.
Einstein's equations may explain the universe without dark energy
Mathematicians have uncovered what they argue is a fundamental flaw in the standard model of the universe, potentially challenging the need for dark energy. Their calculations suggest that the mathematical framework used to describe cosmic expansion is inherently unstable and that the universe could accelerate naturally under Einstein's original theory of gravity. The findings also raise surprising questions about whether our location in the universe is as ordinary as scientists have long assumed.
Six popular sugar substitutes linked to faster brain aging
A study of nearly 13,000 adults found that people consuming the most artificial sweeteners experienced a 62% faster decline in memory and thinking skills, equivalent to approximately 1.6 additional years of brain aging. Six popular sweeteners were linked to faster cognitive decline, raising concerns about the long-term brain health effects of common sugar substitutes, although causation was not established.
Research lobbies cautious over proposed Commission shake-up
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A striking Mars cloud may be born from surprising physics
Everyday Earth clouds get their start with a bit of salt or dust. Not so the Red Planet's Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud, computer models suggest.
College of Science Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Ted Swann
Swann builds a practice and a laboratory around time, trust and health.
The science of a sporting edge
At Tel Aviv University’s new Sylvan Adams Sport Science Institute, researchers and athletes are joining forces to turn Israeli innovation into better performance—and, ultimately, more Olympic medals
Digital Science acquires AI research and writing platform Jenni AI
Acquisition to connect Jenni AI with Digital Science’s research data, beginning with Dimensions and its database of 171 million publications
Sabyasachi Sen honored for outstanding contributions to glass science
Indian American UC Davis professor receives 2026 George W. Morey Award from the American Ceramic Society.
New NASA Workforce Isn’t All Rocket Science
And, in the case of NASA and its workforce, it isn’t all rocket science.
New NASA Workforce Isn’t All Rocket Science
And, in the case of NASA and its workforce, it isn’t all rocket science.
Scientists Ran 100,000 Simulations of Comets Striking Earth. The Results Are a Surprise.
“A one-in-a-million occurrence.”
4 Indian-Origin Science Communicators Win Schmidt Awards 2026
4 Indian-origin science communicators win Schmidt Awards 2026 in US. Learn about Aatish Bhatia, Harini Bhat, Anand Varma & Rupsa Chakraborty.
Less than 42 minutes of bright daylight linked to higher dementia risk
Getting more daylight could be linked to a surprisingly powerful benefit for brain health. In a study of more than 87,000 adults, researchers found that higher daytime light exposure was associated with a 16% lower risk of dementia, with longer exposure to bright light linked to even greater reductions. Remarkably, getting less than 42 minutes of bright daylight daily was a stronger predictor of dementia than six established risk factors.
An AI Breakthrough Has Made Decades of Computer Science Research ‘Irrelevant’
Anthropic and OpenAI say they’ve disproved a key tenet of computer science. Researchers are struggling with the fall but also feel like “overexcited bunnies” as they look at new questions to explore.
Vaso Rahimzadeh Joins Sen. Mark Kelly's Office as Science Detailee
Vaso Rahimzadeh joined Sen. Mark Kelly's office as an AAAS science detailee effective Sept. 1, 2026. Read more on the staff move and Kelly's committees.
Support Hubs Help New Researchers Break Through Bottlenecks at Big Science Facilities
A formative evaluation of a Horizon Europe project finds that dedicated support hubs significantly raise the odds that new researchers clear technical feasibility checks at European research infrastructures, while a downstream gap between laboratory validation and industrial
Nestlé and BirdLife Europe & Central Asia partner to measure how regenerative agriculture practices support biodiversity
A science-led collaboration will use farmland birds as trusted indicators of biodiversity.
Only about half of social science findings held up when retested, major replication project finds
Psychology’s replication problems drew wide attention after 2015. A new study in Nature suggests the challenge is not unique to psychology: across economics, education, business, sociology, and political science, success rates were similar.
‘She could have gotten away with’ murder: The dangerous science behind the Queen of Crime
New explorations reveal the early education and adventures of bestselling author Agatha Christie, who did more than dip her toe in the world of science.
Trump administration kills science ed program named for Lou Stokes; Rep. Shontel Brown appeals
U.S. Rep. Shontel Brown wants the Justice Department to provide the evidence it used to support canceling several National Science Foundation programs including one named after former Rep. Louis Stokes of Cleveland
A golden age of science is coming
It’s almost hard to remember, but just a few years ago, a lot of very smart people thought that science was in terminal decline. Respected researchers were writing papers with titles like “Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?”, “Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time”, and “Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science”. In 1996, science writer John Horgan even published a book called The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The Scientific Age. The fundamental idea was that the Universe only has so many insights to discover, and that we’ve picked the low-hanging fruit. It was the idea that Joseph-Louis Lagrange expressed when he said that “we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.” As the big ideas and the simple ideas get mined out, we’re forced to throw ever more brains at the mysteries of nature just to keep scientific progress going at a fraction of its old pace: It looked like science was hitting a wall. Then along came AI. It’s far too early to tell how much AI will eventually speed up the growth of total factor productivity. But already we can see signs of a speedup in science. Anthropic Founder Jack Clark assembled some of the hopeful data points in a recent lecture: [ Dror Poleg@drorpoleg "If you pick different parts of science, you see the same pattern show up: Progress is accelerating, and it has started to accelerate in the last two years." Jack Clark @jackclarkSF I’m speaking at the IMF in an hour about the singularity and why I believe it has begun and the choices we'll need to make. Watch live here: https://t.co/Hj9HzcXx5h 6:08 PM · Oct 18, 2026 · 21.2K Views 2 Replies · 10 Reposts · 123 Likes ](https://x.com/drorpoleg/status/2111882070376980529) Anthropic is accelerating its investment into drug discovery, and is already announcing some impressive preliminary results: [ BioTender@Junioryu136689 BREAKING: Anthropic unveils early results from six Claude-powered drug development collaborations. • 70% shorter CAR-T signaling domain • ~35,000 antibody designs • >10× tighter antibody binding • 89% less batch-record review time Still largely preclinical. Anthropic @AnthropicAI Over the past few months, Anthropic scientists have engaged in deep research partnerships with six organizations developing new medicines. We've also begun drug discovery efforts of our own. In doing so, we’ve learned much more about how Claude can support the many stages of 9:43 PM · Oct 27, 2026 · 11.2K Views 3 Replies · 24 Reposts · 205 Likes ](https://x.com/Junioryu136689/status/2115197821150495150) Claude also appears to be enabling rapid progress toward a treatment for food allergies. OpenAI, meanwhile, announced a possible breakthrough treatment for neurodegenerative disease. Meanwhile, Google Cloud Chief Scientist Pushmeet Kohli has a list of recent scientific advances that have been enabled by its new Gemini model, including breakthroughs in nuclear fusion reactor design, rare disease research, and quantum computing: [ Pushmeet Kohli@pushmeet Gemini 4 Argon is a step change in model performance. In recent weeks, it has had a transformative impact on the Science projects in our team at @GoogleDeepMind and our external collaborators, and helped make a number of remarkable advances across scientific disciplines. 🧵👇 4:47 PM · Oct 13, 2026 · 36.5K Views 8 Replies · 41 Reposts · 497 Likes ](https://x.com/pushmeet/status/2110049807385702623) But as cool as these stories sound, they’re just very minor, preliminary efforts. There are a number of reasons to think that AI is going to propel us into a golden age of scientific discovery. That age might not last forever — AI might still run into diminishing returns eventually. But the next few decades are probably going to be an absolutely amazing time for human science. The number of “effective researchers” is no longer limited The most important input into science is scientists themselves. Until this year, that meant human brains — talented, highly trained human brains. The number of trained human brains could be increased by sending more people to grad school, but only to a point — the smartest people tend to be sent into the hardest research fields first, and if you 10x the number of researchers, the average quality will go down. This constraint was already starting to bite, as Ekerdt and Wu argued in 2024: We argue that a substantial portion of the downward historical trend in U.S. research productivity is a composition effect resulting from self-selection in researcher ability and the dramatic expansion of the research sector…[W]e find that this composition effect has lowered average researcher ability by between 37% and 53%[.] And of course, low fertility was making the problem worse, because fewer children meant fewer people who were able to become future scientists. AI just blows up this constraint completely. If an AI agent can function as an autonomous researcher, there’s no constraint on the number of researchers in the world — you can just build more of them, by building more computer chips and data centers that enable the running of more AI agents. Whether or not massive hordes of agents can collaborate to solve individual problems much faster, increasing the number of agents allows them to tackle many different research questions in parallel. What’s more, these AI “researchers” can be trained incredibly quickly compared to human beings. A human scientist takes decades to train, and more years to reach the frontier of their research field by diligent reading and conversation. This is the “burden of knowledge”, and it’s commonly believed to be one reason ideas have been getting harder to find — by the time human scientists can get up to speed, they’re often so old that their ideas are no longer novel. AI just annihilates this constraint — it can assimilate the entire literature and reach the frontier of research extremely quickly, and it can also tell human scientists where the frontier lies without forcing them to discover that for themselves. It can also pivot to new research directions more easily than humans can. And there’s also a self-reinforcing economic cycle here. Because scientific advances enable higher GDP, they enable more resources to be invested into the creation of yet more electronic “scientists”. Now that doesn’t mean the amount of scientific research goes to infinity — there may still be some essential bottleneck task that human researchers are still needed to perform. There are some indications that AI’s progress on open-ended conceptual research tasks is slower than in other dimensions, and it may be that humans are still needed to provide some of this long-term conceptual thinking. I’d bet against this being true for much longer, but it might be true for a long time. Even in this most “pessimistic” case, though, the amount of effective capital that scientists can use to leverage their work just went up by a lot. AI eliminates the theory bottleneck Science proceeds by an iterative process of theory and experiment. The theory part of that cycle is typically short, but non-trivial — it took a couple of years after the blackbody radiation spectrum was observed for Max Planck to come up with the quantum hypothesis to explain it, and decades longer before quantum theory as we now know it was created. It took about a year for Watson and Crick to figure out the shape of DNA after the requisite data was gathered. AI will basically eliminate the theory bottleneck entirely — or at least shorten the turnaround time between experiment and theory by an order of magnitude. AI is an absolute beast at math. Recently, an OpenAI model solved some of the most important open problems in computer science, math, and theoretical physics, and no one even batted an eyebrow because that sort of triumph is becoming increasingly commonplace. One of those solutions was a proof that the Standard Model of Particle Physics could be mathematically well-defined — a problem that human theorists had so far been unable to tackle. Not all research relies equally on theory, but understanding novel experimental results almost always involves some important component of either mathematical or spatial reasoning. That part of the task has now been made much, much faster. And on top of that, science is now open to a greater number of humans who aren’t naturally good at theorizing. AI can read the whole literature Much of the work of human scientists involves reading and understanding endless amounts of papers and going to endless conferences and seminars. The purpose of that work is to understand the existing scientific literature. Understanding the literature allows scientists to do the following things: Come up with new ideas for hypotheses to test Avoid doing research that someone else has already done Synthesize approaches from different areas or fields AI can reduce this effort to almost zero. Consider this excerpt from OpenAI’s blog post about their new research into neurodegenerative disease: The team divided the analysis among thousands of AI agents powered by GPT‑Rosalind, an approach we call distributed biological reasoning. The agents examined a whole-brain CRISPR atlas…a dataset showing how gene disruptions affect different types of cells across the mouse brain. Each agent investigated a gene disruption, analyzed cellular responses, searched scientific literature, and proposed explanations for the results. Their reports were combined into a reasoning atlas linking genes, cellular effects, relevant publications, and possible biological mechanisms. The research team estimated that comparable human analysis and literature review, conducted one perturbation at a time, would take months to a year. The agents reproduced findings from human analyses while uncovering additional leads. Their assessments of novelty and scientific value also aligned with judgments from blinded human experts. These findings help prioritize further experiments needed to test the proposed biological mechanisms. Some of these insights point to new leads for understanding brain disease. [emphasis mine] This is one case in which parallel work by a large number of agents really does make a huge difference: [ Haider.@haider1 this is actually insane openai deployed thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents to analyze millions of mouse brain cells in 32 minutes, work that could take human researchers months to a year also the agents uncovered new leads for brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's OpenAI @OpenAI GPT-Rosalind surfaced a new lead for drug discovery: could restoring cholesterol transport protect neurons from degeneration? DCTN1 is a gene linked to Perry syndrome, a rare neurodegenerative disorder. In mouse-brain data, disrupting it increased expression of genes involved in 2:41 PM · Oct 21, 2026 · 51.5K Views 26 Replies · 95 Reposts · 1.26K Likes ](https://x.com/haider1/status/2112917197903540516) Not only does instantaneous literature review vastly speed up the research process, but it allows AI to make novel conceptual leaps from combining approaches from wildly different fields of research. AI regularly does this in math research, combining results, approaches, and theorems from far-flung places that no human mathematician would have thought to combine. It can do it in science, too. Much of scientific innovation, historically, has been “recombinant” innovation — scientists applying insights from one field to another. With AI, essentially all research is now cross-disciplinary — AI can read not just the literature on a particular subject, but the literature on a million other subjects that might have produced useful techniques or insights for the problem at hand. Superscience So far, all of the factors I’ve listed are ways that AI can speed up science as it’s already done. I’ve basically described how AI can send gigantic hordes of superhumanly fast, superhumanly well-read, superhumanly mathematically gifted researchers to re-accelerate scientific discovery. But it’s also possible that AI will enable types of discovery — and ways of understanding the natural world — that no network of humans, no matter how large or how brilliant it was or how long it had to work, would ever be able to discover. In a post back in July, I wrote about how that might work: What if there are lots of…aspects of the Universe that [are] too complex to understand in terms of simple laws, but not so complex that they just dissolve into unknowable chaos? It’s possible that we can reliably control these complex phenomena with AI, even if we never reduce them to the kind of principles that we can teach a grad student in a textbook… Another way of saying this is that there may be laws of the universe that humans can’t understand but AI can. I call these “cloud laws” — causal regularities that can be exploited by technology, but which are too diffuse and complex for an individual human being to either intuit or communicate… Perhaps social sciences like economics, sociology, and political science obey similarly complex regularities, and AI can help us find them. Perhaps there are physical processes — plasma, or topological materials, or aerial turbulence, etc. — that obey cloud laws instead of chaos?… [H]uman collaboration is bottlenecked — it’s limited by our ability to intuit patterns at an individual level, and to communicate these patterns from one individual to another. AI, being a computer, just doesn’t have this sort of limitation; it can work with vast, diffuse patterns without having to break them into pieces or simplify them in order to compress them into the tiny pipelines of person-to-person explanation… If much of the Universe turns out to be ruled by cloud laws, we could be on the precipice of a scientific renaissance. In order to discover cloud laws, AI will need huge amounts of data about the natural world. AI figured out human speech by assimilating essentially all of the text humans have ever written. If it’s going to figure out hidden patterns in biology, neuroscience, materials science, etc., it’s going to need similarly massive amounts of data from physical instruments. That data will be far, far more than humans — individually or collectively — would be able to parse, label, characterize, or model. But AI was built to do this. If scientists simply build huge arrays of sensors to measure complex phenomena like the brain, the cell, the economy, etc., they may be able to feed this flood of data to AI directly and bypass human cognitive intermediation entirely. AI would then learn about the world directly, and it might learn things that humans never could. This “superscience”, if you want to call it that, would actually go beyond the kind of science humans have done heretofore. Many of the technologies it yielded would be beyond human comprehension — indistinguishable from magic. But to the AIs, they would make perfect scientific sense. In any case, it seems clear that the scientific slowdown that threatened human progress will now be delayed — at least for a while. Unless humans have somehow found most of the actual exploitable regularities in our Universe, we’re about to enter a new golden age of science. Subscribe Share
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